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Social Media

6 Ways People Enjoy Using Twitter

May 19, 2009

I love Twitter.  I’ve told people I love Twitter.  The common responses are “What is Twitter?” and “Explain this Twitter to me, I don’t get it.”  My responses have been different for every person who asks.  At first I told people that if they didn’t already know, it probably wasn’t worth them worrying about — [...]

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Blip.fm – Thoughts and Impressions

April 30, 2009

My goal for this year has been to check out a bunch of different Social Media & Social Networking sites on the net.  For the most part, I register, check the site out, then forget to ever go back.  I’ve finally found one that I think is pretty cool.  While not ‘new’, Blip.fm was new [...]

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10 Steps to Creating Your Google Profile

April 23, 2009

I recently wrote about the People Search Engines “Wink” and “Peek You”.  These sites give you a way to control the information that people will find when they search your name online.  On April 21st, 2009, Google launched their own profile maker, called Google Profile.  Obviously, with the Google behind the project, this profile will [...]

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Bringing Your Company Online with Twitter

March 21, 2009

So you want to see what Twitter is all about. You are also part of a company that you’d like represented on Twitter. Do you start a page for both? Do you tweet as yourself AND your company? Do you just tweet as the company? I’ve been faced with this question a couple of times [...]

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Why Employers Need Twitter Guidelines

February 5, 2009

Online Community Strategist Angela Connor recently discussed Twitter Guidelines for employers on her blog.  Her article, “Do employees need social media guidelines?, discusses whether companies should be concerned about the Social Media discussions of their employees – specifically through Twitter.  For any company that deals in material that could be viewed as sensitive or confidential, this [...]

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2009: My Year to Discover Social Media.

January 15, 2009

After starting two new online communities in 2008, I became really interested in other forms of Social Media.  I feel like that term is already getting overused, but for the sake of this post I’m running with it.  In 2008 I moved on from MySpace and started a Facebook.  In a short amount of time [...]

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Choose the Address of your Facebook Profile

January 9, 2009

I like to link to my Facebook Profile and the Facebook Page that I’ve created for my website. One of my few gripes about Facebook is the lack of a memorable email address. I found a new app today that appears to help with that. Check out, WebAddress Application. This app lets you choose a [...]

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